Fighters for Free Croatia

Fighters for Free Croatia was a freedom-fighting group seeking Croatian independence from Yugoslavia that was responsible for the hijacking of TWA Flight 355 on 10 September 1976. They were not violent, only dropping off hostages in huge cities to force-feed their terms to the United States: five key newspapers would publish articles in support of Croatian independence.

History
Slobodan Vlasic, Zvonko Busic, Julienne Busic, Peter Matanic, and Frane Pesut hijacked TWA Flight 355 on 10 September 1976 on its journey from La Guardia Airport in New York City, United States to Mirabel International Airport in Canada, Gander in Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, and finally O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, United States. The 5 hijackers held 36 passengers hostage while keeping a fake pressure cooker bomb on the plane and a real bomb in Grand Central Station, and they forced the plane to land at Mirabel Int'l. Airport. They demanded that the United States print articles favoring Croatian independence in the "New York Times", "Washington Post", "Chicago Tribune", "L.A. Times", and the "International Herald Tribune". They let 35 of the passengers go on Gander, Newfoundland, and it was accompanied by another TWA plane to Reykjavik, Iceland. The United Kingdom refused to let Flight 355 land in London, so it landed in France, and the hijackers surrendered to the US ambassador Kenneth Rush. Nobody was harmed in the incident, and as the police took Julienne Busic away, the pilot of Flight 355 gave her a hug for calming the passengers down. Afterwards, they were deported from the United States following prison terms, and they arrived in newly-independent Croatia in 1988-2008.